Nicholas Hill, MD, is Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine and Chief, Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Division,Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston. He is a Fellow and Immediate past Chair of the Home Care Network as well as a member of the Network Steering Committee for the American College of Chest Physicians. For the American Thoracic Society, Dr Hill is Immediate Past Chair of the Program Committee for the Critical Care Assembly as well as a member of the Planning Committee. Dr Hill's main research interests are in the acute and chronic applications of noninvasive positive pressure ventilation (NPPV) for treating lung disease as well as the pathogenesis and therapy of pulmonary hypertension. |